there are (perhaps unintentional?) lolz at the fact that she stresses how HER parents wouldn't be here, just YOUR parents. whoah, judgmental much...
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
also hey who has issues about being 30yo and unmarried and clinging to juvenile aesthetic positions derived from received wisdom
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
but mostly she just hates nerds!
― Brio, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/bs13690-83559-albums-random-pics-pic43266-nerds-ogre.jpg
― Brio, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
having a downtown condo and drinking chardonnay sounds tite imo
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Starbucks wasn't hiring, huh?
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the best thing about the steely dan thing was when i clicked to the second page and there were pictures of john d. and donald fagen both singing with their heads held high. wanna hear that duet!
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait its on the first page too.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
pwned
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
matos, come home.
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh I don't agree with her at all and think her succession of lazy zings are very revealing about her own very funny and fairly arbitrary insecurities but I don't think its badly written per se. its kinda funny.
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 9, 2009 4:13 PM (50 minutes ago)
ok but the entire glue of her piece is supposed to be this wit she brings - if we agree she can't write a punchline and goes for only the laziest of zings, what's of value? was there any insight you gained?
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 November 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so tempted to RAMPAGE THOSE COMMENTS, but, why
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
City Pages, RIP.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Monday, November 9, 2009 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
^^ this ain't no shit btw
goole do you even do stuff for them anymore?
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
the insight i gained is she needs an editor: "I have to say it's a pretty brilliant concept to feature entire album on tour." if you're gonna do a disreview your writing should at least be clean, especially at your zing-a-sentence ending there
― kamerad, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, but my mom tells better jokes and has more insight than this critic.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
was there any insight you gained?
main insight is that the writer is neurotic. I def. didn't learn anything about the music haha
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
What is the ridiculous strawman that Steely Dan fans think that Dan music is somehow the apotheosis of jazz fused with rock?
I will say that while I thought her writing was horrible, the gig she described sounded great!
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I see wine coolers at the Publix every visit and always wonder who the hell buys them in 2009.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ shakey's halfhearted backhanded defense of this awful piece
― heart goin ham (deej), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
jk i havent even read the piece
oh, right: Becker-Fagen groupies buy wine coolers.
is this piece online only? i know the alt weekly in my city is under huge pressure to just churn out content constantly for the web these days, so "editing" is kinda a thing of the past. Gotta get those click throughs y'all!also, i don't think I've ever had a wine cooler. are they tasty? are they like the steely dan of beverages?
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not that the piece is really AWFUL as much as it's just really, really stupid; you get a sense that the author is WAY more of a douchebag poser twit than the people she's criticizing for SHOCK HORROR having fun at a Steely Dan concert
Wine coolers are awesome until you turn 19
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Like life.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
:'(
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, November 9, 2009 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
naw my relationship was entirely w/ s4r4h 4sk4ri. they canned her for reasons that are probably unrelated to running the kind of shit i wrote, heh. the new crowd there is, from what i know, wholly imported from reveille, but i don't really pay any attention anymore.
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
y'all are sadly OTM re wine coolers and life
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
so tempted to drop the "john d. hearts the dan" bomb in comments there...
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
this pretty much says it all. I don't really think its poorly written - not as poorly written as, say, that Nick Sylvester hipster runoff piece . There's stuff published that is borderline incomprehensible AND offensive from start to finish, but this piece is not like that.
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
other things I learned about the writer from this article - she approves of weed smoking and enjoys it, but feels guilty and self-conscious about it
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
That's how she feels about her parents.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hey dan i don't think the [ital] tags work the same way over there ;)
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
oh dammit, this website has ruined me
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you drinking wine coolers?
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Do I look 19?????? (plz say yes)
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 9, 2009 5:26 PM (23 seconds ago)
probably because she's seventeen and her mom might be reading
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ok fuck it I'm going in
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i wrote a review or maybe two for that paper once? but i can't remember who asked me to. it wasn't matos.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
melissa maerz?
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
dylan hicks? i think that's who it was.
i wrote something for someone named melissa in seattle once.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
lol who is 'tasty lixx'
― heart goin ham (deej), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i got the purdie shuffle detail wrong but w/e
dasty hixx
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Donald Fagen says:
As a founding member of The Dan, I say though square we may be, squared is what we are. Our brand of jazz-rock-fusion-core is crucial to the 31-59 age demographic. Every year thousands of new danfans give in to the jazzgasms we provide. If you dont like jazzgasms then we dont want you at our squarefair. Simple as that.
!
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just now entertaining the possibility that that is the ACTUAL donald fagen
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hope so
― heart goin ham (deej), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link